Tuesday, May 19, 2015
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police said a Mahoning Avenue man punched his girlfriend in a Mahoning Avenue bar early Sunday, broke into her home and stabbed her father then holed up in his house, forcing police to break down the door.
Michael Kohn, 31, is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of felonious assault, assault and aggravated burglary.
Kohn’s estranged girlfriend told police that she met Kohn at a bar in the 2800 block of Mahoing Avenue about 1 a.m. Sunday and told him she was breaking up with him. She then went to the restroom, where he followed her and punched her several times before dragging her out of the restroom by her hair. The woman told police she then told Kohn she would never leave him, and he stopped hitting her, but after Kohn went into the men’s room, she called her father, who arrived and took her to his home in the first block of North Brockway Avenue.
About 2:20 a.m., the woman and her father heard several loud thuds on their back door and saw Kohn trying to kick it in, which he eventually did, reports said. The woman’s father grabbed a knife to defend her, but Kohn took the knife away from him and stabbed him three times in the hand, reports said.
Police were called, and as they arrived, they saw Kohn running through the driveway to his home in the 2200 block of Mahoning Avenue and when he got there, he slammed a door shut, reports said. Reports said there was blood near the door, and Kohn ignored all calls by police to open the door, so they used a ram to force it open, reports said.
Once inside, Kohn gave himself up and was taken to the jail.
The woman and her father were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital to have their injuries examined.